Hank died Sept. 13, 2010.

Born in Baltimore and raised in Forest Park and Garrison, Md., he graduated from Gilman School in 1948. At Princeton, he played hockey, was captain of the skeet-shooting team, and qualified for the Olympic skeet team. He left Princeton and was attending Johns Hopkins when his father died in 1951. Hank left college to take over his father’s hardware business, H. Linn Worthington Co. He was president of Wire Fabrications Ltd., owned and operated the Katchall Trap Co., and founded Southern Hardware.

Hank served as campaign chairman for Porter Hopkins during our classmate’s successful career in Maryland politics.

A lifelong music lover, Hank founded the volunteer choir at St. Thomas Church in Owings Mills, Md., and the Foxheads, a small a cappella group. He was an avid baseball fan and supported the Baltimore Orioles. He founded and coached the Green Spring Little League, and also designed and built an outdoor ice rink at the Green Spring Valley Hunt Club.

As one classmate said, “Hank was a great guy. Everybody liked him.”

The class extends deep sympathy to his wife, Sallie; children Edward ’82, John, and Jean Cross; and seven grandchildren. 

Undergraduate Class of 1952